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WP 5 - Joined eParticipation technical research
eParticipation technologies comprise software systems and conceptual schemes (such as programming languages, standards, ontologies and algorithms) and must be implemented on existing hardware platforms and networking capacities. Key eParticipation technologies address large scale discourse analysis, community decision making, large scale public participation, virtual communities and semantic and ontological knowledge representation. The workpackage sets the necessary structures and themes in place for ensuring joined technical research.
To meet and support the implementation of two main pillars of the IST FP 6: a) stimulating
research and development of ICT so as to master the technologies that will drive future
innovation and growth; and b) promoting the widest and best possible use of ICT-based products
and services by all citizens:
- To understand the existing tools and technologies used for eParticipation
- To analyse the technical challenges of eParticipation and the need for new technical
approaches to support new services and promote active citizenship. - To utilize the methods of Knowledge Management for large-scale eParticipation and to
support the quality of citizens’ involvement and to support the back-offices to extract
citizens’ inputs in an effective and high-quality way. - To develop standards and ontology for information structuring in eParticipation tools.
This will be realised by focusing on important technical issues such as natural language
processing, ontology and the use of open standards for meta data and data exchange
standards for eParticipation tools, independent of the tools used - To develop the community of researchers and liase with socio-technical researchers.
Final conference of the VoiceS project
International eParticipation conference ePart 2010
